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Demand for foreign SIM cards has grown in Russia
In Russia, the demand for the SIM-cards of foreign operators has grown. This is written by Izvestia with reference to Mobile Research Group. In July, about 850 thousand such SIM cards were used in Russia, and now their number has almost reached one million, the lead analyst at Eldar Murtazin told the publication.
As the reasons for the growth of the use of foreign SIM cards, experts call blocking foreign Internet services, some of which have stopped serving Russian users. These are, for example, Chatgpt, Sony and Netflix. The last growth provoked the impossibility of registering or restoring an account on Google services using a Russian number.
Foreign SIM cards are needed to obtain codes for confirmation of registration in a particular service. Murtazin explained that in Russia they work in international roaming mode, but their owners do not go online, and they also do not have voice traffic. They only periodically come to text messages.
Vladimir Zykov, director of the Association of Professional Social Society and Messengers, noted that to continue the work of a foreign SIM card in Russia, it is necessary to pay for it. This is necessary to undergo authorization and two -factor authentication on various services.
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However, only the presence of a foreign number is not enough to obtain access to services that do not work with Russians, explained Igor Bederov, head of the Department of Information and Authorized T.Hunter Information and Authentic Research. Restrictions can be distributed to IP addresses and Russian email addresses. According to the expert, you can solve this problem by changing the email address, but at the same time, services can begin to analyze other information about customers, for example, finding in a certain hour zone and location data.
Sergey Polovnikov, the head of the Content-Review project, believes that a foreign SIM card can be blocked after its purchase. This is due to the fact that, according to the rules of many operators, the user must perform some actions with it: go online, call, and so on. Reception of SMS messages to these operations does not apply.
Also, Russians with foreign SIM cards may have problems with entering a monthly fee due to difficulties with foreign payments. It is difficult to buy a SIM card intended for citizens of a country, with a low tariff, and the tourist can be turned off in three months.
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